Parents Cheddi Jagan Role Politician | Name Joey Jagan Occupation Dentist, politician | |
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Full Name Cheddi Jagan Jr. Other politicalaffiliations Unity Party of GuyanaGuyana Third Force Political party People's Progressive Party | ||
Dr. Joey Jagan Endorses Coalition Govt
Cheddi 'Joey' Jagan Jr. is a dentist and a politician in Guyana.
Contents
- Dr Joey Jagan Endorses Coalition Govt
- DR JOEY JAGAN BASHES PPP FOR FAILING GUYANA
- Early life and family
- Political activity
- Personal life
- References
DR. JOEY JAGAN BASHES PPP FOR FAILING GUYANA
Early life and family
Dr. Jagan is the son of two past Guyanese Presidents, Dr. Cheddi Jagan and Janet Jagan. His father was an Indo-Guyanese Hindu whose parents came from India to work the plantations of Guyana. His mother was a Jewish American from Chicago who was of Hungarian and Romanian descent. He has a sister, Nadira Jagan-Brancier.
Political activity
In politics, he is the co-founder of the Unity Party of Guyana, a pro-capitalist party seeking to bring more foreign investment to Guyana (which made him an opposite to his parents who were Socialists)
In 2006, Dr. Jagan, joined with Peter Ramsaroop, Paul Hardy and Rupert Roopnarine to form the Guyana Third Force. In 2011, Dr. Jagan returned to the party of his father, the People's Progressive Party (PPP), having previously been a leading critic of it, along with Ramsaroop, the leader of Vision Guyana (a political/social organization in Guyana).
Personal life
Jagan's son is Cheddi Jagan III, also a member of the PPP.
